Laura Clawson

Georgia Teacher Is Killed After Teenagers’ Prank Goes Wrong

“This is a terrible tragedy, and our family is determined to prevent a separate tragedy from occurring, ruining the lives of these students,” Ms. Hughes added. “This would be counter to Jason’s lifelong dedication of investing in the lives of these children.”

Nope.

Visiting kid playing with fidgets by @mostlybree.kitrocha.com: “so there’s a guy who just makes fidgets?” Me: “well, it’s a woman. She writes romance novels, organizes against Trump, & sells fidgets.” Other visiting kid: “you could 3D print these yourself.” First kid: “but these are anti-Trump.”

I’m so sorry.

I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation

And we called that tiny bit of accountability "going too far."

I mean I am also an unfashionable middle aged person but nonetheless.

And yet I came looking for this take this morning after seeing the Balenciaga pictures last night.

There was what I’m pretty sure was exactly that play structure at a playground two blocks from us until they tore it up a few months ago to upgrade the whole park.

The thing about Timothee Chalamet is that he has been trying to have it both ways, as on the one hand an Oscar-seeking Actor and on the other hand the kind of bro who dates a Jenner and craps on other art forms. And both iterations basically suck.

this is, almost literally, a panel from next week's cartoon, written before I read this.

The Emotional Cost of Parental Deportation - JSTOR Daily A study of US citizen children shows how immigration enforcement and family separation affect mental health and stability.

What effect does parental deportation (or the threat of it) have on U.S. citizen children? My latest at JSTOR Daily focuses on research into that question by Lauren Gulbas and Luis Zayas -- notably it's a 2017 article, so...everything is worse now.

I am not clicking on the link to find out the details of Markwayne Mullin "fingering the nostrils" of other people. I'm just not. You can't make me. Even if I kind of wonder what "fingering nostrils" means.

PS Quick reminder not to call electeds who don't represent you. I know it's tempting, but their staffers will literally throw away the lil message they start taking down when they realize you're not a constituent. Literally-literally.

WBUR Cognoscenti Opinion Making Boston's buses free is a bad idea Rich Barlow March 04, 2026

MA gave a $1B tax cut to the wealthy just 3 years ago, but centrists never tire of telling us we can't possibly have transit that's good AND free

This is amazing; am watching on C-SPAN3. If she had a staff member who liked her, that person would've walked up to her 15 minutes ago to whisper in her ear to get out of there.

But no one is protecting her. Any one of these attendees can break the news to her on live tv.

Consider how much surgery and how many filler injections she's put herself through to have this job.

specific guys aside—it is politically and morally bankrupt to be told we must seriously consider how many is too many pieces of nazi flair

One of my grandfathers was an agricultural economist who was the second director of the Bureau of Land Management. The other was basically a machine politician who did stints as probate clerk and sheriff in St. Clair County, IL.

This is really good.

Consistently, in survey after survey, housing availability and affordability is THE number one issue facing Massachusetts voters.

A ‘status quo’ approach to housing from any elected official, of any political party, should be considered malpractice today.

I’m actually willing to buy that he’s more a moron than an ideological antisemite, but you really have to be laughably clueless to think “but his wife is Jewish” is even the slightest bit relevant to that question. It should have exactly zero effect on anyone’s certainty either way.

You can reach out to the local leaders who have already endorsed her candidacy and ask them to rescind their endorsement.

(How many congressional candidates do you know build their own microsites?)

My *Democratic* opponent for the open seat in #CA14 donated to *this* Laura Loomer.

There is no version of this story where Rakhi Israni giving money to Laura Loomer is acceptable. None. It’s disqualifying.

The Massachusetts Department of Correction has been fighting me for months, trying to withhold data about its collaboration with ICE.

Yesterday, I won that fight, and obtained records showing that the state has transferred more than 2,000 people into ICE custody since 2009.

A quick thread:

Inside ICE’s Only Contract with a Blue State - Bolts As part of a 287(g) contract between state officials and ICE, Massachusetts continues to release prisoners into deportation—even as state lawmakers look to ban other forms of ICE collaboration.

As we reported in @boltsmag.org last month, Massachusetts is the *only* state with a Democratic governor + legislature that maintains a state-level 287(g) agreement with ICE. As part of this agreement, Massachusetts often funnels people exiting prison into deportation.

boltsmag.org/massachusett...

Conspiracy theories led to precinct voting which led to a mess, which may lead to more conspiracy theory forever until the end of time.

One of the things we looked at with CIP was "vicious cycles" of misinformation and policy. Failures lead to conspiracy theories which lead to bad election policy which lead to more failures which leads possibly to more conspiracy theory. And so on. November is looking bleak.

Every time I seen this pompous bullshit I remember 2018 when he declared my candidate the winner.
We knew it was way to close to make that declaration. We ended up losing by fewer than 400 votes.

Me anytime someone starts talking about Mississippi fourth grade reading scores: WHAT ABOUT EIGHTH GRADE???

Genuinely amazing how no one wants to grapple with that.